Attorney Michael Avenatti has come under fire over a now-deleted tweet encouraging people to chip in for Beto now, linking to what appeared to be a fundraising page for Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto ORourke.

In the fine print of the now-deleted campaign, however, ORourke supporters discovered that half the proceeds went to Avenattis Fight PAC, formed a little over seven weeks ago.

Users were able to manually allocate funds entirely to ORourke, however the default sent half of all money collected to Avenattis Political Action Committee.

It is pretty skeezy, said Brendan Fischer, the director of federal and FEC reform programs at the Campaign Legal Center, of the fundraising tactic. If Avenatti wanted to raise funds for Beto ORourkes campaign, he could just share a link to the Beto for Senate donation page. But he didnt. Avenattis tweet gave viewers the impression their donation would support Beto for Senate, and given how easy it is to make a one-click donation through ActBlue, some viewers could miss the fine print disclosing that their donation would be split with Avenattis PAC.  Daily Beast

Avenatti called the criticism complete nonsense, noting that Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris do the same thing. Perhaps sensing hed made a huge mistake, Avenatti deleted the page  telling the Daily Beast in a text message: It wasnt worth the nonsense that resulted from people that dont understand how common this is.

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